Ashley’s Comments (group member since Apr 27, 2022)

Ashley’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Chava wrote: "Chava wrote: "I’ve finished The hypnotist. I will try to fill the spreadsheet out tmw"

I've added my book. I hope I did it ok."

Looks fine Chava! :)

Anouschka wrote: "Ashley wrote: "Laura..devouring books like crumpets wrote: "As for off putting book characters i totally agree they can ruin a book i just read one where the Male MC would interrupt, assume and con..."

At this point no. We should hear more soon, as the Round 1 Mini starts in 11 Days : 12 Hours : 34 Minutes. :)

Maybe in a few more days....

Anouschka wrote: "@Ashley, 3 post for the buddy read is linked"

Awesome, thank you! :)

Laura..devouring books like crumpets wrote: "Im not sure how supply drops work.... im thinking food and shelter will be the most common and we need weapons and defense"

I suppose we could throw in a Defense book to entice the other District to give us a nice book! Or a book that works for all options?

I should be finishing The Invisible Man today, which is a shorter book and it works for Food. That would be a smaller book we could give, and then we could make pick a "better" one with 2 or more options?

Laura..devouring books like crumpets wrote: "As for off putting book characters i totally agree they can ruin a book i just read one where the Male MC would interrupt, assume and contradict the female mc and they author tried passing him off ..."

It definitely a fine line... I read "Things We Never Got Over" recently and really disliked the MMC for a LONG bit of the REALLY LONG book. He did eventually become better, but man, I was always ticked off when he "spoke".

Attention Tributes!!
Let's discuss the Supply Drops! I trust everyone has had a chance to review, but if not, please see the main post here.

What strategies do you suggest? What are your thoughts? Should we pick randomly or for specific things? Are there questions?

Let's hear it!

My thoughts on disliking a book character is to embrace it, especially if you like the books in general and other characters (obviously if you think the book sucks, DNF... lol). I try to just have fun with it, because maybe you're meant to dislike her, or character growth is a part of the plot, or maybe that is just your personal way of seeing them and it changes the whole feel of the book for you.

I only DNF because the book is bad, not because a character is unlikeable.

That being said, life is short, so DNF whatever you aren't vibing with, honestly. I'm really trying to teach myself this....

I'm waiting a bit longer before watching Bridgerton, bc I know I'll hate the wait!

What a wild way to do Outlander! I loved both the books and the show, but I definitely couldn't read them simultaneously!

Brittany wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Brittany,

can you please add Ghost Station to your Games shelf?

Thanks!"

I was just writing the review, it should be on there now, I had just added it to the tr..."

Thank you! ;)

...... I'm voting Hugh "Wolverine" Jackman

Hello again Brigia! I definitely understand the difficulty!

I promise I will be more talkative next week! We had a solid week of graduations and events with all the kids and it's finally ending, so I'll be way more chatty... and I'll be able to read more too!!!

Yeah, mobile and app are just the worst!

@Nous, Yes!. I commented about this earlier in the week, but I'm sure it got lost in other conversations. I'm just watching for your bom posts, and I'll update that part when you're finished.

Thank you Karen! ☺️

Cass, there are no prompts, just the 4 categories (Defense, Weapons, Food, Shelter). If you're thinking of the examples given in the rules, you can find those by going to the rules thread (the link is in my first message in this thread. However, those are just examples and ideas, you don't need to use them. Use your creativity! If someone ate something in the book, that works for Food. It's really that simple!

Cass☀️ wrote: "Quick clarification on the break down of books that fit the challenge. I see that there is the option of “ x color on cover”. So I could read almost anything I would like and it would qualify? Or w..."

At this point, I think it's more important to get a stockpile of books going. Judging from the Supply Drop information, there may be a need in the future to protect those different stockpiles, which may change our focus. For now, read what you like and find as many options per book as possible!

Hello from District 6! We have really lovely tire pants if you need to borrow some! Stop by anytime!

Haha! Andy those are wild!!!

Hello Melissa!!

ATTENTION District 6 Tributes!! Our first "twist" has been revealed... Start thinking about those lovely parachutes!



Everyone needs a little help from a friend (or sponsor).

Supply drops consist of books read by the sending team to be used in a way chosen by the receiving team within specified criteria.

Teams have been paired up for the duration of Book Games and are allowed to send up to 3 supply drops each to their partner team per round. This is not required - your team could decide to not send any supply drops. But if that's your team's choice, your partner team could decide to do the same.

Paired teams are allowed to coordinate with requests for books which would be most helpful to the receiving team. However, the sending team ultimately gets to decide which books are sent as supply drops.

Sending Team

The sending team chooses up to 3 books to send to the recipient team each round. These can either be 3 random books or books that meet specific needs of the recipient team.

The books can be sent any time during the round and the books do not have to be sent at the same time. That being said, it would be most helpful to the receiving team if the supply drops were received early enough in the round to decide how best to use the books for their team.

The sending team logs the supply drop books on the respective round's book log, puts the books in an appropriate resource category, and receives page points for the books sent. However, the books sent for supply drops cannot be used for other tasks. The appropriate code for supply drops is added to the mini reference column.

Supply drop books cannot be sent until they have been read by the sending team.

Receiving Team

The receiving team can choose from a variety of options on how to use the supply drops. But once used, they are locked in and the supply drop books cannot be moved to a different spot.

Supply drops can be carried over into future rounds but can only be used for mini challenge tasks in the round they were sent.

- Mini Task: Supply drop books must work for the mini task they're being used for. This includes the read date being within the timeframe of the mini challenge.

- Additions to resource piles: Supply drop books must meet a requirement of the resource pile.

- Protecting supply piles: Supply drop books must fit into that category AND have some type of shield/defense. These would need to be separate. So if you want to use a supply drop book to protect your defense supply pile, the book needs to fit into the defense category in 2 different ways.

District 6 is paired with District 9
District 9's thread is here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...